Tuesday, December 30, 2008

QuickTime thumbnails

This patch, to the WindowsXP operating system, provides thumbnails for QuickTime movies, in folder views. This may also work with the Vista operating system, though I have not tested it. Download these two files, msvcr70.dll, and QuickThumb.dll. Place them in your 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32' folder. Leave the 'SYSTEM32' folder open and go to the 'start' menu and choose 'Run...' Paste the following code 'regsvr32 QuickThumb.dll' into the Run window and choose OK. You should get a message saying registration was successful. You can uninstall this by pasting 'regsvr32 /u QuickThumb.dll' into the run window and running it with the SYSTEM32 window open etc. It looks harder than it is. Good Luck.